Kathleen HerrmannVallejo, CA Poet Laureate (January 1, 2024-December 31, 2025). Vallejo, CA Poet Laureate (January 1, 2024-December 31, 2025). Kathleen Herrmann, an educator, holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors in English Literature from the University of Californiaat Berkeley and a Master of Arts in Teaching Leadership from St. Mary's College of California. She is a teaching artist in the Vallejo City Unified School District under VTA (Vallejo Teaching Artists). She has also been published in the Going The Distance column in the Benicia Herald. She was awarded Best in Show at the Solano County Fair in 2022 and 2023. She is an occasional guest reader and host on OZCAT radio's Art Beat Poetry Hour. She has read poetry at Vallejo's Martin Luther King March (sponsored by the NAACP), Black History Month Celebration, Winters LitFest 2, Benicia's Fiestas Primavera, Vallejo's Second Friday Art Walk and Earth Daze Festival, Girls On The Rise: Find Your Place in the Legal Field, sponsored by the Solano Superior Court, Solano Bar Association and Solano Commission for Women and Girls, the Solano County Fair, the Brushstrokes For Earth exhibit, Vallejo's Mad Hatter July Fourth Waterfront Festival, the Visions of the Wild Festival and the Mad Hatter Holiday Festival. She co-hosts Tea House Poetry Open Mic with her poetic partner, Jacalyn Eyvonne. Read More Read Less